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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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August 28, 2008
Category: Burns My Shorts
This article was bizarrely stashed in the business section of the Philadelphia Inquirer, rather than reported as Science news, or even just as general news. Going back to 1969, a chemist with no soul named Manfred DeRewal bought a local...
Posted by Zuska at 1:43 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Ludicrous Language
Words really have pretty casual meanings these days.
Posted by Zuska at 12:48 PM • 15 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: Announcements
So: Long promised substantive reply to comments on previous post is not materializing anytime soon. Migraines, mom in hospital again, coming down with headcold, sister arriving tomorrow for holiday weekend visit, possible trip to western PA next week to tend...
Posted by Zuska at 10:37 PM • 4 Comments •
August 19, 2008
Category: Burns My Shorts
Clearly it's not the visual presence of women's tits that is responsible for harassment and other shameful male behavior.
Posted by Zuska at 8:37 PM • 166 Comments •
August 15, 2008
Category: Scientiae Carnival
Lab Cat is hosting the next Scientiae, and her theme is My Summer Vacation! Even for those not in education or with children, September means the end of summer so this Scientiae gives one more chance to look back over...
Posted by Zuska at 9:35 AM • 2 Comments •
August 14, 2008
Category: Daily Struggles
Authors Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy provide dos, don'ts, advice and support.
Posted by Zuska at 2:40 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Sex Offenders
I really wonder what you have to do to get fired from a university.
Posted by Zuska at 12:50 PM • 21 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: Announcements
Hey Readers! Seed is running a reader survey. You could win an iPod AND a MacBook Air AND an Apple TV!!! just for participating! Apparently the chances of winning are pretty darn good. So maybe you want to sashay on...
Posted by Zuska at 10:05 PM • 1 Comments •
August 7, 2008
Category: Geekalicious
I never got around to reviewing Danica McKellar's first book, Math Doesn't Suck, and now she's got a second one out, Kiss My Math. You gotta love the title at least. I think she's got a whole franchise going here....
Posted by Zuska at 10:12 PM • 5 Comments •
August 6, 2008
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
The National Association of Scholars, in its tireless quest to have the little-noted perspective of the white man represented in our nation's colleges and universities, has succeeded in getting a pet project funded via the Higher Education Act reauthorization. As...
Posted by Zuska at 2:36 PM • 5 Comments •
August 5, 2008
Category: Ludicrous Language
"Penetrate" is a word that appears with some frequency.
Posted by Zuska at 10:41 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
The womanist is "not a separatist, except periodically, for health".
Posted by Zuska at 12:04 AM • 27 Comments •
August 4, 2008
Category: Positive Actions
For those of you who participated in last fall's Donors Choose challenge - and those of you who didn't! - here is a painless way to help out a really worthy cause. A media website Seed digs called BigThink is...
Posted by Zuska at 9:14 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Announcements
Please note, if you were planning to attend the ScienceBlogger meetup in New York City this coming Saturday, the location has changed. Here are the details about the new location: The new spot will be at a bar on the...
Posted by Zuska at 8:54 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Announcements
During my time as a blogger, I have discovered that I am lousy at one of a blogger's sacred chores: maintaining the blogroll. The ideal of what my blogroll would be is perhaps best exemplified by Janet's at Adventures in...
Posted by Zuska at 3:59 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Stereotypes We Know And Love
A great post at eduwonkette looks at gender and stereotype threat in math performance. Stereotype threat has been well-documented in "laboratory" settings, but eduwonkette reports on a study in a real-life setting: These men and women were, by all accounts,...
Posted by Zuska at 12:08 PM • 6 Comments •
August 3, 2008
Category: Announcements
I believe there was at least one of my readers who expressed an interest in attending this Saturday's ScienceBlogger meetup in New York City - Falyne? Still planning to attend? Maybe there are more of you and you just didn't...
Posted by Zuska at 10:13 PM • 0 Comments •
August 1, 2008
Category: Burns My Shorts
The patriarchal borg is intent upon assimilating you.
Posted by Zuska at 9:24 AM • 18 Comments •
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